Morning Walk

Madhudviṣa:
…Bhāgavatam you say that we should greet the sun with the verse from Gāyatrī mantra. Does that means we should wait for sunrise to say our Gāyatrī? Just as the sun is rising, we should say the Gāyatrī.

Prabhupāda:
No. Early in the morning. [gurukula boys chanting in background]

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
Sometimes we take bath before sunrise and put on tilaka. Should the mantra be said at that time, after putting on tilaka? Or should we wait and then say it…

Prabhupāda:
No, no.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
…when the sun rises? After tilaka?

Prabhupāda:
No, no. Tilaka should be done after bathing.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
And then when should the Gāyatrī be said? Right after…

Prabhupāda:
After tilaka. Gāyatrī mantra is description of the sun. [break] …our land?

Bhavānanda:
Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Jayapatākā:
This is wheat growing here.

Prabhupāda:
Huh?

Jayapatākā:
This is wheat growing.

Prabhupāda:
This land?

Jayapatākā:
This is not our land.

Prabhupāda:
And this? Up to this…?

Bhavānanda:
This is our land, and this is our land. This is not. [break]

Jayapatākā:
Śrīla Prabhupāda? Would it be nice to have lampposts here? Little lampposts to light the road?

Prabhupāda:
[pause] It is cold. [laughs] [break] Where? No. That’s nice. Nice for barefooted. It is there, up. [break] You have to make little shade like this, just like upon the wall the shade is there. You make to the walls so that the water may not spoil the painting.

Bhavānanda:
Oh, on the front wall.

Jayapatākā:
A little sun screen.

Bhavānanda:
Sun…, rain screen.

Prabhupāda:
Yes.

Jayapatākā:
Stick it one foot out, one, two feet out.

Prabhupāda:
Yes. Not two foot. One, one-half foot will do.

Jayapatākā:
I was thinking that this morning, Śrīla Prabhupāda, when I woke up.

Prabhupāda:
Yes.

Jayapatākā:
You must have been thinking… I woke up thinking that the paintings needed a sun screen because rain will fall on them.

Prabhupāda:
Which way? [break] All the members, they should water in front. Hmm? Just like if somebody remains in this room, he must water. Then there will be no difficulty. Here is water. So anyway, you have to engage them. Why it will dry? [break]

Jayapatākā:
You suggested prasādam, books, cloth…

Prabhupāda:
Cloth you are not going to sell. Cloth, are you going to sell?

Jayapatākā:
We can take donations for cloth. We won’t sell. We’ll take donations for cloth.

Prabhupāda:
That, for that purpose…

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
What is the harm of selling cloth, Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda:
No, then you will require extra energy.

Jayapatākā:
No, I mean our own production, not outside.

Prabhupāda:
No, no, your production… You should make production for your necessities.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
The American devotees, when they come, they want to purchase the cloth.

Prabhupāda:
That is amongst ourselves, not public. That one can purchase from that side. Why a shop? You make one utensil shop, bāsana, bāsana, karatāla. So one, prasādam; one, bāsana; and another?

Jayapatākā:
Books.

Prabhupāda:
Books. And another? Four you have got.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda:
Hmm?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
You know those quotations you gave from your Guru Mahārāja? Yesterday you wrote some quotations?

Prabhupāda:
Yes, yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
Here is a place where they might be displayed. This is a blank place.

Prabhupāda:
Yes, yes. There it should be written.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
This is very prominent.

Prabhupāda:
Not only there; here also.

Jayapatākā:
In big letters here.

Prabhupāda:
Yes. And there are so many places. Yes. First of all you place this and the other. We can give the upadeśa of Prabhupāda. I’ll give you matter for writing. So writing, that charges should be reduced. One…

Jayapatākā:
Yesterday Caitya-guru, the man he brought from Calcutta, he only wanted one rupee, seventy-five paisa.

Prabhupāda:
For painting. And for writing that should be…

Jayapatākā:
Writing, maybe one twenty-five.

Prabhupāda:
No. One. One. Make it one.

Jayapatākā:
One rupee.

Prabhupāda:
Yes. Which way we shall go?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
This way. We haven’t gone walking this way.

Prabhupāda:
So where you are going to give that shade upon?

Jayapatākā:
So what we’d have to do is we’d have to break the top.

Prabhupāda:
Huh?

Jayapatākā:
We’d have to break the top and then…

Prabhupāda:
Break? Why break? Another expenditure. Simply you make two brackets, wooden brackets, like that, and have a tin. That’s all.

Jayapatākā:
Tin.

Prabhupāda:
Tin or steel. Why breaking, again another?

Jayapatākā:
There’s already a… I was thinking about the rain, if it’s falling straight down, that will be somewhat protected by this arch. Only if the rain is coming from this side, and even then it won’t protect…

Prabhupāda:
Oh, yes. The arch will… That’s all right. Then don’t require. Then it is all right. Don’t require. [break] It will be colder in Bengal. Māghi, Māgha-māsa. [January–February] Who has done this mischief, “Māyāpur”?

Devotee:
Someone put mud over “Māyāpur.”

Jayapatākā:
This is our land, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda:
Hmm?

Jayapatākā:
This is our land here.

Prabhupāda:
Which one?

Jayapatākā:
This, with the wheat. We have a tube well there. We irrigate these lands. There are six and six bighā, twelve bighā. [break] …last year’s harvest. We haven’t had to purchase any wheat this year.

Prabhupāda:
The chapāti we eat, that is our wheat?

Jayapatākā:
Yes.

Prabhupāda:
Very good, yes.

Jayapatākā:
[break] …bīghā is also ours.

Prabhupāda:
This one?

Jayapatākā:
Yes.

Prabhupāda:
What you have grown there?

Jayapatākā:
Chickpeas.

Prabhupāda:
Oh, that’s nice. Chickpea, chapāti, gūr—first class. [laughter] And milk.

Jayapatākā:
[break] …land next to us, this gentleman.

Indian man (2):
[Transl. Please come, Prabhupāda.]

Prabhupāda:
[Transl. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Are you all doing well?]

Indian man (2):
[Transl. Yes, alive by your mercy.]

Prabhupāda:
[Transl. Why? [laughs] Hmm. Live happily.]

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:
What is his name?

Jayapatākā:
Vakreshvar. He worked on our original house. [break]

Prabhupāda:
Just see how… [break]

Jayapatākā:
In the rainy season the Ganges, when it rises high, it comes through here. It runs right by the birth site. They say this is the original Ganges, over here. [break]

Prabhupāda:
Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Gurukula boys:
Hare Kṛṣṇa!

Prabhupāda:
Jaya. [Transl. Good boys.]

Jayapatākā:
[break] Not so many ghoṣas [cowherds] come for prasādam. Little cows. [break] [end]